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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person whom the Main Character discovers at the unlucky bend in the road admit to having?
(a) A sixth sense.
(b) A hostage.
(c) A plan to take over the world.
(d) A bomb.

2. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discuss after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?
(a) The downfalls of naming a child.
(b) Time saved by their mode of transportation.
(c) The Girlfriend's ears.
(d) God's inefficiencies.

3. Who arrives at the villa and tells the Main Character that he has behaved selfishly?
(a) The Rat.
(b) A messenger.
(c) The Sheep Man.
(d) The Business Partner.

4. What do the Main Character, the Girlfriend and the person who comes to pick up the cat discuss early in Chapter 24?
(a) The advertising business.
(b) The superiority of animals over humans.
(c) Messages from God.
(d) The starred sheep.

5. What does the Main Character find on the mountain road that tells him someone else has been there recently?
(a) A hat.
(b) A cigarette butt.
(c) Footprints.
(d) Tire marks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose suicide is revealed in Part 8?

2. Why does the Sheep Man tell the Main Character that he fled to the mountains?

3. What does the mirror reveal about the Sheep Man?

4. What best describes the Sheep Professor?

5. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend observe as they go further up the mountain road?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is isolation and alienation of the characters apparent in Chapters 25 and 26?

2. Aside from her powerful ears, is the Girlfriend a help or a hindrance to the Main Character?

3. Why is the Rat able to destroy the Sheep?

4. What is the importance of time to the characters in Chapter 24?

5. Describe the Dolphin Hotel.

6. Why is the Sheep able to control the Rat?

7. How are the sheep at the sheep farm similar to the people that the Sheep is trying to control?

8. Is the Cat or the Main Character more at home in the world? Please fully support your answer.

9. How does the Sheep Professor's information help the Main Character on his quest?

10. Explain how the Sheep Professor came to his current state of being.

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